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Highest ROI Arts Majors

Top 50 Arts college majors by ROI percentile

# College Major Degrees Accept Earnings ROI Employ Debt-to-Earn Male White Asian Black Hispanic Intl SAT p25 SAT p50 SAT p75 Submit %
1 Georgia Tech Industrial Design 12 13% $126,068 99 95% — 92% 75% 0% 17% 8% 0% 1370 1460 1530 100%
2 Carnegie Mellon Design 35 11% $135,376 99 93% — 29% 20% 31% 0% 9% 20% 1500 1530 1560 84%
3 California College of the Arts Interaction Design 23 91% $127,872 99 100% — 26% 0% 17% 0% 9% 70% — — — —
4 Brigham Young Housing and Interior Design 14 68% $109,487 99 91% — 79% 64% 7% 0% 7% 7% 1290 1360 1430 54%
5 Stanford Product Design 27 4% $129,548 99 — — 52% 26% 30% 7% 19% 7% 1520 1550 1570 77%
6 Savannah College of Art and Design Human Computer Interaction 48 83% $114,145 99 100% — 46% 33% 17% 4% 8% 38% 1030 1150 1270 28%
7 Brigham Young Animation 25 68% $88,928 97 83% — 32% 72% 4% 0% 4% 16% 1290 1360 1430 54%
8 MIT Urban Science and Planning with Computer Science (Course 11-6) 17 5% $103,036 95 94% — 35% 24% 41% 0% 29% 6% 1520 1550 1570 100%
9 San Jose State Design and Applied Arts 170 80% $84,071 94 98% — 38% 13% 40% 3% 29% 5% 1010 1140 1270 10%
10 San Jose State Graphic Design 23 80% $84,071 94 98% — 35% 30% 48% 0% 13% 0% 1010 1140 1270 10%
11 San Jose State Industrial Design 23 80% $84,071 94 98% — 70% 13% 39% 4% 17% 4% 1010 1140 1270 10%
12 San Jose State Interior Design 12 80% $84,071 94 98% — 17% 0% 42% 0% 50% 8% 1010 1140 1270 10%
13 U. of California, Berkeley Urban Studies 36 11% $91,917 93 89% — 31% 25% 25% 3% 36% 6% — — — —
14 Iowa State Architecture 86 85% $88,106 92 96% — 40% 65% 8% 0% 6% 5% 1120 1240 1360 59%
15 CUNY Hunter Urban Studies/Affairs 21 28% $78,992 92 94% — 43% 19% 24% 29% 14% 5% 1100 1270 1420 11%
16 Cleveland State Music Therapy 10 88% $82,771 91 94% — 10% 90% 0% 0% 0% 0% — — — —
17 U. of Massachusetts - Amherst Architecture 118 60% $87,892 91 100% — 73% 61% 5% 6% 13% 3% 1310 1410 1500 25%
18 U. of Texas at Austin Design 50 27% $88,431 89 92% — 26% 24% 34% 8% 28% 2% 1320 1450 1530 74%
19 U. of Texas at Austin Interior Design 17 27% $88,431 89 92% — 0% 35% 6% 12% 47% 0% 1320 1450 1530 74%
20 Pennsylvania State Landscape Architecture 27 55% $85,518 88 100% — 59% 70% 7% 4% 11% 4% 1280 1350 1410 34%
21 Virginia Tech Architecture 131 55% $82,291 88 96% — 41% 53% 11% 7% 11% 9% 1270 1360 1440 50%
22 U. of Central Missouri Drafting Technology 17 64% $77,012 88 92% — 59% 71% 6% 0% 6% 0% 930 1060 1180 68%
23 North Dakota State Architecture 60 92% $76,248 87 100% — 43% 83% 2% 3% 2% 5% — — — —
24 U. of Pennsylvania Design 22 5% $92,787 87 — — 32% 27% 27% 18% 9% 5% 1500 1530 1560 70%
25 Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo Art and Design 44 30% $79,312 87 86% — 30% 64% 7% 0% 23% 0% 1240 1330 1420 23%
26 Brigham Young Urban Planning 10 68% $71,198 87 — — 70% 80% 0% 0% 0% 20% 1290 1360 1430 54%
27 U. of Arizona Urban Planning 65 85% $83,894 87 98% 7.9% 78% 69% 3% 2% 18% 2% 1150 1290 1420 29%
28 U. of North Texas Art Education 42 81% $76,205 87 92% — 7% 57% 2% 2% 33% 0% 980 1110 1230 52%
29 Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo Graphic Communication 81 30% $78,643 87 94% — 14% 48% 26% 0% 12% 0% 1240 1330 1420 23%
30 Mississippi State Architecture 45 84% $80,529 87 100% — 56% 69% 7% 13% 4% 0% 1000 1120 1230 88%
31 Art Center College of Design Entertainment Design 116 76% $85,772 87 93% — 32% 9% 27% 2% 9% 52% — — — —
32 Wellesley Media Arts and Sciences 29 15% $91,004 86 100% — 0% 7% 31% 14% 28% 17% 1460 1500 1540 62%
33 Rochester Institute of Technology New Media Design 47 67% $87,272 86 100% — 34% 60% 13% 9% 6% 2% 1310 1380 1440 49%
34 Cal Poly - San Luis Obispo Architecture 146 30% $76,759 86 97% — 49% 40% 22% 1% 17% 5% 1240 1330 1420 23%
35 Art Center College of Design Interaction Design 27 76% $84,139 85 — — 37% 0% 26% 0% 0% 74% — — — —
36 Miami University - Ohio Interactive Media and Design 91 74% $82,609 85 95% — 43% 86% 2% 4% 0% 5% 1220 1310 1390 32%
37 Auburn Architecture 65 47% $80,562 85 100% — 38% 74% 5% 0% 6% 14% 1260 1330 1390 90%
38 Northeastern Graphic Design 65 17% $89,338 85 96% — 28% 46% 25% 5% 6% 11% 1440 1480 1510 28%
39 U. of Dayton Music Therapy 10 60% $84,863 85 98% — 0% 80% 0% 10% 10% 0% 1200 1290 1380 36%
40 Cal Poly - Pomona Architecture 107 75% $70,159 85 92% — 46% 11% 27% 0% 50% 4% — — — —
41 Oklahoma State Architectural and Building Sciences/Technology 37 68% $76,401 84 100% — 49% 73% 3% 0% 8% 0% 1040 1150 1250 85%
42 Louisiana State Landscape Architecture 20 71% $76,748 84 90% — 65% 50% 0% 15% 10% 25% 1180 1260 1340 47%
43 Belmont Music Therapy 11 94% $80,879 84 99% — 0% 91% 0% 0% 0% 0% 1160 1260 1350 55%
44 U. of Washington Visual Communication Design 22 42% $77,545 83 98% — 9% 32% 36% 5% 9% 5% 1320 1410 1500 24%
45 U. of Washington Industrial Design 19 42% $77,545 83 98% — 21% 47% 32% 0% 0% 0% 1320 1410 1500 24%
46 North Carolina State Architecture 34 40% $76,519 83 92% — 38% 59% 9% 6% 9% 0% 1310 1380 1440 40%
47 Cal Poly - Pomona Landscape Architecture 68 75% $68,243 83 93% — 62% 12% 16% 3% 62% 3% — — — —
48 Shenandoah Music Therapy 15 74% $76,159 83 95% — 13% 67% 0% 7% 7% 0% — — — —
49 U. of Florida Graphic Design 45 20% $73,206 83 93% — 11% 38% 18% 7% 31% 0% 1330 1410 1490 100%
50 U. of Florida Interior Design 23 20% $73,206 83 93% — 0% 61% 9% 0% 30% 0% 1330 1410 1490 100%